Colombian leftists 'sentenced to death' by far-right groups .

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombian leftists 'sentenced to death' by far-right groups .
Thursday, 08 March 2012 20:40
Adriaan Alsema

Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro, several leftist congressmen and human rights defenders have received a letter notifying prominent leftist political politicians they have been "sentenced to death" in a letter signed by the Bloque Capital of neo-paramilitary group "Aguilas Negras."

In the letter, partially shown on the socialist party's website, the alleged paramilitary group warns it "has the order to execute" "the FARC guerrilla bitches who oppose the policies of our government and brainwash the displaced to act as human rights leaders."

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Illegal far-right groups have threatened numerous human rights organization and displaced leaders involved in processes to have stolen land returned in both the north and the southwest of the country over the past few weeks.

According to a human rights coalition called Somos Defensores, 49 human rights activists were killed in 2011. According to the coalition, most death threats and assassinations are carried out by groups formed from the officially demobilized AUC.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/22709-leftist-groups-sentenced-to-death-polo-democratico.html

[Mosaic]

1. Colombia like Japan

Were frightened by a violent United States into embracing capitalism, in many ways both countries are further right than even your basic Adam Smith worshiping American. But unlike Japan, Colombia never attacked this country. Colombia lost Panama in the early imperial wars, Japan lost its dignity and sold out making better earth destroying cars than their filthy conquerors.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. How much do you want to bet that these "right-wing death squads," like

their 1980s counterparts in El Salvador and Guatemala, are actually arms of the government? You know, those right-wing death squads that could do things like assassinate an archbishop in a crowded cathedral while he was at the altar and somehow never get caught?